By the end of this century, 75% of people will be living in cities. The need for energy will therefore become a decisive topic for urban areas. Additionally, effects of climate change such as heat waves will become drastically noticeable, predominantly in urban areas, due to the urban-heat-island effect. Energy expenditure for air-conditioning of buildings will rise dramatically. As a consequence, climate protection debates are increasingly shifting their focus on cities and their energy consumption. At the same time, there is abundant potential for energy production through integration of photovoltaics (PV) in windows and façade elements (BIPV). In order to be able to reach Austria’s energy policy goal of “100% renewable electricity power production in Austria until 2030,” photovoltaics – including BIPV – will have to take over a significant portion of the power supply. An increase from the current 1.25 GW to at least about 15 GW will be necessary (TPPV 2018). This is only possible if buildings’ surfaces in cities are used efficiently. The fusion of intelligent shading with a cost-efficient, flexible and light PV-technology, as planned within this project, will enable resilience and more efficient buildings in a sustainable manner. This will open up areas of exploitation that would not be accessible with traditional PV concepts, and as a result, the potential for sustainable energy production in the urban space will multiply. The energy efficiency of buildings is doubly taken cared of, because cooling demands will be minimized and at the same time the energy needed for the building’s operation will be provided by the product itself. Thanks to the additional development and implementation of an intelligent, self-learning control system, with the aid of artificial neural networks, a balance between all kinds of aspects of building usage will be made possible. User comfort such as receiving more daylight, glare protection, passive temperature regulation through a solar heat input or minimizing the cooling load by shading, photovoltaic power production and energy demand shall thus be kept in balance in regard of various aspects. The shading products of the company HELLA shall constitute the base for this innovation. The integration of photovoltaics in such products poses great challenges on the comprised PV technology, where the thinlayered PV technology offers the ideal prerequisites: flexible, lightweight, with almost unlimited possibilities in design and a very cost-efficient R2R production process. In the course of this project, specific requirements for performance, durability and appearance of the modules in such applications will be examined closely, and the technology will be developed further so that the requirements for efficient and durable systems are matched perfectly. The University of Applied Sciences Vienna (FH Technikum Wien) will, thanks to their expertise in the field of BIPV as well as in the area of energetical inspection of buildings and urban quarters, also analyze and quantify the influence of various scenarios and systems in the course of modelling and simulations, and thereby significantly contribute to a definition of even more ideal solutions.